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Thousands of vulnerable Docker daemons online

It’s been almost one month since a vulnerability in the container platform Docker was discovered, but that doesn’t mean everyone is safe. In fact, there are many unpatched Docker hosts still exposed on the internet, leaving them vulnerable to cryptojacking campaigns.

According to Bleeping Computer:

“While the container breakout security flaw found in runC was patched the same day by multiple vendors (e.g., Amazon, Google, and Docker), and one of the runC maintainers published a patch designed to fix the issue, there still are thousands of exposed Docker daemons online left unpatched. Following the disclosure of the vulnerability on February 11, there were approximately 3,951 Docker daemons exposed and, as discovered by Imperva's Vitaly Simonovich and Ori Nakar, the number remained pretty much constant with roughly 4,042 being reachable at this moment.”

Unfortunately, this cryptojacking campaign could get worse, given that hundreds of hosts have already been compromised. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that these daemons get patched soon.

Code for Windows calculator gone public

The code for the Microsoft Windows calculator can now be yours, thanks to it being open sourced on GitHub. Now that the code is available, developers can use this code as a jumping off point for bigger and better things.

According to The Next Web:

“A few weeks ago, we wrote about a HackerRank developer survey that highlighted a surprising trend: for most young developers, the first program they created was a simple calculator. And now they get to see first-hand how the most popular calculator of all time works. How terribly exciting."

Fun fact: this calculator has been on every version of Windows since 1985. So the next time you have to go to an '80s themed party, you can go as a true icon by donning your best Windows calculator costume.

But there's more going on in the world than that.

Naming 103 weevils

We all know the classic Beatles names like George, Paul, John and Ringo ... but have you heard of Trigonopterus yoda? That’s only one of 103 newly named weevils — beetles living on Sulawesi, an Indonesian island. Before this, there was only one named beetle on the island.

According to Popular Science:

"[Brett] Ratcliffe knows the struggle of naming a new creature. ‘It’s a challenge because we try to coin an epithet that’s descriptive,’ he says, perhaps referencing the insect’s appearance or habitat. ‘To do so for a hundred species is almost mind-boggling.’ So it makes sense that scientists will often turn to pop culture to name their discoveries—just as [Alexander] Riedel did for his most recent batch of weevils. He named one tiny green weevil Trigonopterus yoda, after the vertically-challenged Jedi master from Star Wars.”

Other beetle names came from Greek gods and French comics. Sounds a lot like trying to creatively name 103 servers at the same time. I guess IT pros and scientists face the same types of problems.

And you can't not know this.

The Queen has an Instagram

Over 160,000 likes. That’s how many positive affirmations the Queen’s first Instagram post got, which is probably way more than that post about your dog. Her first 'gram included a picture of a letter sent to her great-great grandfather, Prince Albert. But she isn't a total noob when it comes to technology.

According to Engadget:

"While the Queen may have made her debut on Instagram today (using an iPad, according to the BBC), she's not a total stranger to social media. She appears on the Royal Family's Instagram account often, she's just never been behind the camera before. She sent her first ever tweet in 2014, also while touring the Science Museum. Queen Elizabeth may be a bit behind in the social media era, but she used to be on the cutting edge of technology. In 1976 she became one of the first heads of state to send an email when she attended a demonstration of ARPANET, a precursor to today's internet.”

ARPANET! Raise your hand if you sent an email in 1976. I expect to hear crickets, but I'm not one to talk. I wasn't even alive then.

“A few weeks ago, we wrote about a HackerRank developer survey that highlighted a surprising trend: for most young developers, the first program they created was a simple calculator. And now they get to see first-hand how the most popular calculator of all time works. How terribly exciting."

“A few weeks ago, we wrote about a HackerRank developer survey that highlighted a surprising trend: for most young developers, the first program they created was a simple calculator. And now they get to see first-hand how the most popular calculator of all time works. How terribly exciting."

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“A few weeks ago, we wrote about a HackerRank developer survey that highlighted a surprising trend: for most young developers, the first program they created was a simple calculator. And now they get to see first-hand how the most popular calculator of all time works. How terribly exciting."

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"Sounds a lot like trying to creatively name 103 servers at the same time..." Once put in a new rack of 4 servers in the 2000s, nicknamed them John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Never was sure what the 5th one should be - Billy Preston? Brian Epstein? Pete Best?

Previously there had been only Disney nicknames from the previous administration, along with NAS storage Snap servers called what else but Snap, Crackle, and Pop.